CheeseIsGood's Million Dollar Musings: Friday, August 6th
Happy Friday! We close out the week with a big 14-game slate that looks at first glance to be evenly balanced between pitching and hitting, as well as not having any obvious stand out games to soak up ownership. Let’s dive right in and see if we end up finding some separation anywhere.
Hi, it’s me Dave, from the future! I just finished the pitching section, and while I hope I kept it un-wordy enough to be readable, it was a pretty exhaustingly big group to dig through. All that is just to say that I’m going to post the pitching half of the article now, and I’ll be back in a couple hours after some more coffee with the hitting side of things. As per usual, there’s nothing that notable that you need to know about the future, there’s just a lot more robots here. And now, back to present time:
Friday Night Pitching
Well yikes! We’ve got ourselves a slate with one ace and then a ginormous tangled mid-tier of pretty decent pitchers, many in strong matchups. I’ll start with these four buckets, and while I’m going to quickly dump a bunch of these mid-tier options, just know that this is a very wide open slate where you could easily rank your mid-tier completely different from me.
The Lone Ace
Corbin Burnes vs Giants
A Crazy Ton Of Decent Pitching
Chris Bassitt vs Rangers
Adam Wainwright vs Royals
Zack Greinke vs Twins
German Marquez vs Marlins
David Price vs Angels
Kyle Gibson vs Mets
Mike Minor at Cardinals
Marcus Stroman at Phillies
John Means vs Rays
Logan Webb at Brewers
Ryan Yarbrough at Orioles
Wade Miley vs Pirates
Sandy Alcantara at Rockies
Cal Quantrill vs Tigers
Ryan Weathers vs Diamondbacks
Upside With Added Risk
Patrick Sandoval at Dodgers
Kyle Muller vs Nationals
Alek Manoah vs Red Sox
Caleb Smith at Padres
Nathan Eovaldi at Blue Jays
Salary Savers Only If Needed
Mike Foltynewicz at A’s
Matt Manning at Indians